{"id":16642,"date":"2012-09-22T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16642"},"modified":"2012-09-22T08:26:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:26:55","slug":"drivers-ask-fia-to-shorten-singapore-race-de-la-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/drivers-ask-fia-to-shorten-singapore-race-de-la-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers ask FIA to shorten Singapore race &#8211; de la Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 drivers have in the past asked the governing body to reduce the length of the Singapore grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Hot, humid and under artificial lights on a demanding street circuit, the event is regarded as perhaps the toughest physically on the entire 20-race F1 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish veteran Pedro de la Rosa confirmed that description, even though this weekend is actually the HRT driver&#8217;s very first competitive taste of the Marina Bay layout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I have been in several meetings of the GPDA and it is the only world championship circuit where there were people asking Charlie Whiting to reduce the number of laps,&#8221; he is quoted by Marca sports newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>De la Rosa said Singapore is like Monaco in terms of &#8220;effort and concentration&#8221;, with the big difference being &#8220;humidity and distance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here (the race) is 309 kilometres, Monaco is 260,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 drivers have in the past asked the governing body to reduce the length of the Singapore grand prix. Hot, humid and under artificial lights on a demanding street circuit, the event is regarded as perhaps the toughest physically on the entire 20-race F1 calendar. Spanish veteran Pedro de la Rosa confirmed that description, even &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[810,5262,5340,566,1534,271,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16643,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642\/revisions\/16643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}